Ability may get you to the top, nut it takes chracter to keep you there - mental, moral, and physical.

Make each day a masterpiece. Don't think your best days are out there somewhere. Why not today? Why can't today be a great day? It can if you believe it will.

It's not how big you are, it's how big you play.

The life lessons taught by John Wooden have become legend. Here's a collection of some of the greatest 'Woodenisms.'

Hardship brings people closer together if you share it.

My bench never heard me mention winning. My whole emphasis was for each one of my players to try to learn to execute the fundamentals to the best of their ability. Not to try to be better than somebody else, but to learn from others, and never cease trying to be the best they could be; that's what I emphasized more than anything else.

You never fail if you know in your heart that you did the best of which you are capable. I did my best. That is all I could do. Are you going to make mistakes? Of course. But it is not failure if you make the full effort.